Really well explained! There´s only one thing I can´t understand no matter how much I think. In chapter 19, Law tells Jesse of how they met. In his POW we see a young Jesse say " Hey, you blonde, whats your name? But clearly that´s not how they met in reality since it was Law´s father who introduced them in ch 33. So that means Law lied in ch 19 and played that "perfect" scenario in his head where Jesse picks him out from the crowd because he didn't like the "real" beginning of their relationship. Right? Otherwise it does´t make sense since Jesse mentioned that his nails etc doesn't grow inside Moritat so there´s no way they could be young again in that virtual reality.
I hope you understand my question (●￣(ｴ)￣●)
yeah! I’m 100% sure Law lied about their first encounter - and there’s probably a bunch of different reasons he did that, taking in account all of Law’s traumas and his way of… handling things, lol. He probably did do it so it would fit his ideal scenario better, but maybe also because trying to explain to Jesse that they’d been attached to the hip since fifteen would be tricky? He’d have to add more lore to their virtual lives and, besides, when you consider Jesse’s personality… he himself would most likely be puzzled as to why he’d kept Law by his side for so long tbh. It wouldn’t exactly do Law any good to go, “ah, that’s because you as well as owned me and we indulged a toxic relationship that broke me for life,” because Jesse hardly would believe they’d been bffs. (I mean. C’mon. He breaks a mug on Law’s head first thing inside Moritat.)
Who knows what goes inside Law’s head, though! We can only come up with theories, but I’m glad my summary on things helped you.
I have no idea , how u got this from the manhwa
But I like ur explanation ...
Thnx ╮(￣▽￣)╭
This explanation really helped. I thought I understood it before but now I see what’s really going on XD Thanks (⌒▽⌒)
Ok, just going a bit deeper, I believe the real reason why Law created the moritat device was so he could control Jesse. The continuous flashbacks show how Law used to be at Jesse's beck and call. Law created the device so he could reverse their positions.Jesse is the one being controlled to feel what law has been feeling since they're were young.Law also had the obsession to make Jesse lose everything with no choice other than to choose him. If you carefully read the flashbacks, you can kinda feel what Law was trying to convey in his past. That is, how much he desired to be by Jessie's side. * However Law was afraid that he would lose Jessie so he created the Moritat. This gave him the position which let him control Jesse. With this, he was the only one who Jesse could rely on. Once he got what he wanted, he stopped the moritat. I think this was the part that confused most people. The explanation I have come up with is that Law was unable to take the pressure of having Jesse rely on only him so he stopped the device. However, Jesse ends up confronting Law about his weakness and ends up accepting him in reality. In the end, this manhwa excellently demonstrates the desire to be equal and possess someone. I can see how it can be confusing because I had to read it for a second time to understand it fully.
* Like you said, "His friendship with Jesse is super strained at first, Jesse's personality considered, and that puts Law under a lot of pressure and anxiety, to the point where he starts hating Jesse as much as he loves him."
First of all Law didn’t create moritat, he just finished it. And yes indeed, he put Jesse in Moritat for the sake of having Jesse choose him but also as revenge for everything he went through. As seen in ch 49, Law wanted to strangle Jesse and break him in pieces but he couldn’t in ‘reality’. That’s why he cried. The reason to why he chose to end Moritat may have been due to pressure indeed (since he still recognized Jesse as a being above him) but as somebody explained in the comments before, it was actually because after finally getting what he always wanted, he didn’t know what to do with it. I think it’s something we all experience. Wishing for something badly, and when we finally obtain it, we get scared of losing it again or because we don’t think we are worthy of it, so we run away instead. Jesse said it too in ch 52, that Law didn’t have the confidence to stand by his side as an ‘equal’, because he never has. I’ve re-read it like 100 times now like a crazy ass so that’s the conclusion I arrive to. (⌒▽⌒)
Ah that clears things up more for me. It's been a while since i read moritat so I forgot that Law wasn't the one who created the moritat. I remember he was administrator, but I think you explained the fact why Law turned off the moritat better. (▰˘◡˘▰)
Since the narration isn't linear, you just have to separate the story in two timelines:
- The first one, the actual 'beginning' of the story, is shown in the flashbacks at the end (black and white scenes). Basically, Law's parents manipulated him into getting the Brown's favors through Jesse to get privileges in the high society, and he willingly did all that because he thought he wasn't his father's legitimate son - out of a sense of guilt and fear of being thrown away, I suppose. His friendship with Jesse is super strained at first, Jesse's personality considered, and that puts Law under a lot of pressure and anxiety, to the point where he starts hating Jesse as much as he loves him.
Anyway, Jesse says that about wishing everyone would forget his condition after the incident with the maids, and Law is so devoted he takes it seriously and creates Moritat based on that projector-thing Jesse made when they were younger. Jesse is disgusted by Moritat and its mind-altering purposes; his mom loves it, seeing Law as a potential cash cow and leashed 'dog' to the Browns. After Law learns he's his parents' legitimate son, he resents everything they made him go through to become Jesse's friend and is fairly content when they die (probably killed by the Browns, so Law would be farther within their range of control).
Jesse cares about Law enough to hate the idea of his own parents controlling him and bans him from the mansion. Later on in the story, the media comes to know about Moritat being used on the staff in the Brown manor through Rosalie, who worked there as a maid, and Jesse takes responsibility for the whole mess, so he hides from the public eye and goes to an ordinary university. The scene where Law appears and Jesse is sitting on a bench happens years later, after all that; Law gives Jesse the tea that's used to ease the person into Moritat and puts both of them into the virtual world he's created, still longing to be Jesse's one and only.
- The second timeline starts after everything I've described above, from the first chapter until Jesse chooses to die with Law and starts bleeding from the head. Everything that happened in those chapters didn't actually, well, happen. Law programmed a bunch of situations that that would toy with Jesse's mental state over and over to see how Jesse would react, if Jesse would trust him and stay with him if he hadn't had everything he could wish for in the palm of his hands. And also, I presume, as a means of letting out all his conflicting feelings about Jesse - his love, his heartbreak, his anger and his agony. The simulation fails multiple times (for example: the scene at the beginning, where Law pushes Jesse off the cliff, is the failed ending of the previous simulation), until Jesse finally gets around his feelings for Law and chooses to die with him; that's when Law turns off Moritat, because that's exactly what he always wanted from Jesse: to be needed. He pretends not to love Jesse anymore when they wake up to real life, though - and that's just one day after meeting again at the university, by the way; it's only Law who feels like it went on for longer, since he was the 'administrator' in control of the simulations -, because he can't deal with the idea of Jesse loving him.
At the end, after meeting Rosalie, Jesse goes after Law and sees him using the projector-thing from their childhood. It's meant to project a certain image based on your feelings towards the subject of the image, and that's how Jesse knows instantly that Law still loves him: the image of the young Jesse that appears is the same as all those years ago. If his feelings had changed, it would have looked different. Jesse snaps him out of it and they both, finally, come clear about their feelings.
Hope this sorts some of the story out!